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Source: Daily Journal
Aurora officials spent the weekend celebrating a new 30-acre park that they hope will help revitalize the city’s downtown and the neighborhoods along the shores of the Fox River.
RiverEdge Park held its grand opening celebration this weekend when thousands of people came to listen to blues music in the new $13.2 million music garden. It’s the first of five distinct areas being developed in the park.
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Source: ABC News
A suburban Chicago teenager is expected to plead not guilty to a charge he sought to join an al-Qaida-linked group fighting Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria.
An arraignment for Abdella Ahmad Tounisi (too-NEE’-see) is scheduled for Wednesday at federal court in Chicago.
The FBI says it snared the 18-year-old in an online sting. Authorities arrested him last month at O’Hare International Airport as he allegedly prepared for the first leg of a trip to join Jabhat al-Nusrah.
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Print this page.By: Linda Girardi
Source: Aurora Beacon-News
Aurora Police Officer Matthew Bonnie was off duty driving on Minkler Road in Oswego when he saw a crashed vehicle that had run off the road and was on fire.
Bonnie pulled the driver out of his burning vehicle through the back passenger side door.
Bonnie did not mention the incident to anyone at the Aurora Police Department.
“It’s something any one of us as police officers would have done,” Bonnie said.
Bonnie’s supervisor did hear about the officer’s “bravery and heroic actions.”
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Print this page.By: Clifford Ward
Source: Tribune
An Aurora man has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for drug convictions, Kane County authorities said Thursday.
Peter A. Cotts, 43, of the 1200 block of Pleasant Place, was sentenced Tuesday by Judge Susan Clancy Boles, who had found Cotts guilty following a bench trial held in April.
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Print this page.By: Marie Wilson
Source: Daily Herald
More than half the members of the Aurora City Council will be sworn in Tuesday — some for the first time and others reinstated — as the council transitions to new leadership.
Aldermen elected in wards 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10 and one at-large seat will be sworn in during a special city council meeting following the regularly scheduled committee of the whole at 5 p.m. at city hall, 44 E. Downer Place.
New faces include Ted Mesiacos, who will be sworn in to fill the Ward 3 seat Stephanie Kifowit resigned last fall after winning election to the state House in the 84th District; Bill Donnell, who will succeed Rick Lawrence in representing Ward 4; Edward Bugg, who beat several competitors to win the Ward 9 seat formerly held by Al Lewandowski; and Lynne Johnson, who will represent Ward 10 after Lynda Elmore steps down to move out of state.
Returning aldermen to be sworn in again Tuesday include Juany Garza in Ward 2, Scheketa Hart-Burns in Ward 7 and Alderman-at-Large Bob O’Connor, who is returning again after 28 years on the council.
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Print this page.By: Associated Press
Source: Daily Herald
An 18-year-old Aurora teen accused of seeking to join an al-Qaida-affiliated group in Syria will learn today if he must remain in jail as he awaits trial.
Abdella Ahmad Tounisi is to appear today at a detention hearing in federal court in Chicago. Prosecutors plan to argue that the teenager poses a threat and should remain behind bars.
The FBI allegedly snared the American-born teen through a sham website that claimed it could hook users up with extremist groups.
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A suburban teenager will be in a Chicago courtroom on Tuesday, accused of trying to support a terrorist organization.
Abdella Ahmad Tounisi’s court appearance follows his arrest at O’Hare International Airport as he prepared to board a plane to Syria, where he intended to join up with a terrorist group.
Tounisi, of Aurora, allegedly wrote to a FBI agent posing as a terrorist recruiter that he was willing to die but had no fighting experience.
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A 12-year-old Aurora girl that went missing Thursday has been found, Aurora police officials said Friday night.
Hazel Maria Gonzales was “located safe and sound,” according to police spokesman Dan Ferrelli, who said more details would be provided later.
source: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130308/news/703089846/
Print this page.Reported by Harry Hitzeman, Daily Herald
Not long before she was to start her shift as a waitress on Jan. 31, Aurora detectives claim, Abigail Villalpando met with two male friends to hang out at a home on the 400 block of Jefferson Street on the city’s east side.
One of the companions, Juan Garnica, asked the 18-year-old West Aurora High School senior to look at a dead turtle in the home’s aquarium.
As she bent down and peered into the tank, Garnica hit her in the head with a hammer seven times, the detectives say. He then rolled up her body in a blanket, storing it in a blue container in the rafters of his friend’s garage, they say.
source: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130221/news/702219667/
Print this page.Reported by Melissa Silverberg, Daily Herald
Police have charged three men in connection with the murder of an 18-year-old woman who was a senior at West Aurora High School, officials said Sunday night.
Abigail Villalpando, 18, of Aurora, was found burned beyond recognition by the Kane County Sheriff’s Department K-9 unit around 9 a.m. Saturday in a wooded area just inside the Village of Montgomery in the area of Fifth Street and Wabansia Avenue, according to a release from the police department.
source: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130203/news/702039808/
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